Rob: 2367 books

Keith just wants to say he’s sorry. A lifetime of drug and alcohol abuse has given him a lot to apologise for – particularly to the two people who raised from a child. But as the memories of violence, betrayal, lies and recriminations are raked to the surface, it becomes clear that past actions...

I provided him with things money can’t buy. And now he’s left me the most priceless gift of all. His most precious possessions. Two orphaned twins are forced out of the rural wilderness they know and into a bleak, brutal London that they don’t. Seeking refuge in a dank pub basement, they...

High blood pressure affects nearly one in three women and two in five men, and is a major contributor to strokes and heart disease. But how much do we really know and understand about the causes of high blood pressure and what can be done to control it? With the perfect mixture of medical and practical...

Are you constantly looking for your next adrenaline-packed experience? Seeking another dose of excitement from an adventure with suspense, fun, and danger rolled into one? What if your Christian life were just as thrilling? Jesus said that He came to give us abundant life. In Thrill Sequence, Rob...

This book will take you on a journey, a journey through Oxford and a journey through the lives of ten roguish males. All of the men have at least two things in common: a strong association with Oxford, and some claim to be a rogue. They are all famous in some way or another, some tending towards infamy....

In 1996 I wrote a collection of poetry called 'Sex', which consisted of 69 poems that covered every aspect of sex you could imagine, and probably quite a lot you couldn’t imagine (doing the research was interesting). 'Sex' never got published. This collection contains many of...

By far the longest essay in this collection is 'Dishwash Theory - an explanation of the mind', which is a somewhat unique take on the nature of consciousness.This collection runs to approx. 34,000 words and also contains a number of diagrams and photographs.

This book is a compilation of my blog posts about Fukushima, starting on March 11th 2011, the day of the Tohoku earthquake, and covers the first five years of something quite unique in human history: there's never before been three nuclear reactors in complete and ongoing meltdown.Some...

‘How to influence people without getting them drunk or flirting: brilliant’ Venetia Thompson, bestselling author of Gross Misconduct • How exactly can we use our body language to win friends and influence people? • When can £1 be more persuasive than £50? • Why does...

Anthropologists, psychologists, feminists, and sociologists have long studied the “everyday,” the quotidian, the taken-for-granted; however, geographers have lagged behind in engaging with this slippery aspect of reality. Now, Rob Sullivan makes the case for geography as a powerful conceptual...

By the author of You Can Change Your Life (Macmillan, December 2012) Over the last decade, Rob Yeung has interviewed hundreds of high achievers in business, sport and entertainment to gain insight into the minds of successful people. Combining this knowledge with a wealth of scientific research,...

Bij veel mensen in Europa leeft het gevoel dat hun leiders de controle aan het verliezen zijn en dat het beetje welvaart en veiligheid dat ze bezitten verloren dreigt te gaan. Anderen denken dat hun langgekoesterde wens om politieke veranderingen zal worden gerealiseerd. Rob de Wijk verdedigt in dit...

This is the story of entrepeneur Rob Youngs twenty years doing business in Shanghai. Anecdotes ranging from the sad to the hilarious to the outright perplexing - including fi ring an employee because she could see ghosts, wrestling with a corrupt policeman, and hiding a frozen body part from the Sanitary...

Journalistiek is verworden tot een ordinaire nieuwsfabriek, waar kijkcijfers, lezersaantallen, advertentie-inkomsten en winstgevendheid gelden als onbetwiste graadmeters voor succes. De bedoeling is om burgers permanent gebiologeerd te houden met spectaculaire, vermakelijke of anderszins aandachttrekkende...